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Webb Chapel Park Pavilion, Dallas.
Category: Play
Honorable Mention
Part of a program to introduce new architectural pavilions into Dallas’s neighborhood parks, the new Webb Chapel Park Pavilion, designed by New York–based Cooper Joseph Studio, provides shaded seating and eating areas for community gatherings. The architects took programmatic constraints—the public site is in a high vandalism area, so it required clear sight lines through the structure—and turned them into an opportunity, creating a sculptural poured-in-place concrete canopy that is set into a low berm and supported solely on three concrete piers. Inside the canopy, four vivid yellow-plastered voids culminate in uniquely shaped skylights that filter natural light into the area beneath, while still offering protection from rain.
“I would imagine that this would have a very long lifespan. There’s something kind of primeval about it—it’s kind of like Stonehenge. It has a kind of mysterious, inexplicable quality that I love.” —Phoebe Crisman
Project Credits
Project Webb Chapel Park Pavilion, Dallas, Texas
Client City of Dallas
Architect Cooper Joseph Studio, New York—Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA (principal-in-charge); Chris Cooper, AIA (principal-in-charge); Chris Good (project manager/design team); Read Langworthy (design team)
AssociateArchitect Quimby McCoy Preservation Architecture, Dallas, Texas—Nancy McCoy, FAIA (principal-in-charge); Susan Bruns (project manager)
StructuralEngineer Jaster-Quintanilla Engineering—John Hoenig
ElectricalEngineer Gerard & Associates Consulting Engineers—Walter Gerard
ConcreteConsultant Reginald D. Hough, FAIA
GeneralContractor Phoenix I Restoration & Construction
Size 903 square feet
Cost $250,000
Photographer Eduard Hueber/Arch Photo
